After once again fooling Emperor Mingde, his nominal uncle, Wang Hao reluctantly saw him off.
This uncle, who was granted a privilege, was quite generous, arranging a luxurious palace that was almost as well-equipped as the Crown Prince's Eastern Palace.
Zhu Ruoxue, who had entered the palace with him earlier, was also assigned here, but the little girl seemed to be very uncomfortable with everything here.
"Your Highness, please forgive me!"
Upon seeing Wang Hao's arrival, the palace maids who had been assigned to serve Sun Ruoxue during her bath and change of clothes all knelt down in panic.
After washing up, Zhu Ruoxue insisted on wearing the simple clothes that Wang Hao had bought for her, rather than changing into the luxurious brocade clothes brought by the palace maids.
Don't you like wearing those clothes?
He crouched down, looked the little girl straight in the eyes, and asked Wang Hao.
He cared a lot about this goddaughter.
The young girl didn't say much, just nodded slightly, clearly indicating that she really didn't like wearing those flashy brocade dresses.
Wang Hao felt both helpless and sorry for the little girl. She had never had a good life in the Dugu Family since she was a child, and she had never even been Humanity Sect to speak. She had never communicated with anyone in the past ten years.
Despite his efforts to teach the little girl language during his stay in Beijing, she still doesn't like to speak.
After all, this is a habit formed over more than a decade, and it's really hard to change.
"Fine, if you don't like it, you don't have to wear it!"
Wang Hao gently flicked the little girl's nose, then, without turning his head, instructed the kneeling palace maid, "From now on, prepare clothes that match the style of Ruoxue's current attire. Keep the style simple, but make sure they are comfortable to wear."
"Yes, sir!"
The palace maids breathed a sigh of relief, as if they had been granted a pardon, and hurriedly nodded in acceptance of the order.
They were genuinely afraid of being blamed by Wang Hao, as their fate would be dire.
"I'm going to look at some martial arts texts in a little while. Are you coming with me, or staying here?"
Wang Hao asked, but he already had the answer in his heart.
These past few days, this girl has been very clingy, unwilling to leave his side for even a moment. Even when they went to the Imperial Study to meet Emperor Mingde and Zhu Yuanzhang, she didn't want to leave and stayed with Cao Haisheng at the entrance of the Imperial Study.
I don't think I'd want to be separated this time either.
Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, the little girl reached out and grabbed his sleeve, indicating her own wishes.
"Okay, whatever you say!"
Wang Hao gently stroked the little girl's delicate nose again, then stood up and tossed two pre-prepared prescriptions to a nearby palace maid, saying, "Prepare the herbal decoction according to these two prescriptions once a day."
After saying that, Wang Hao took the little girl Zhu Ruoxue's hand and walked outside.
Over the years, this girl's health has deteriorated significantly, to the point that the vitality of her internal organs has been almost completely exhausted.
Although his Innate Qi was profound, it was still insufficient to make up for this deficiency.
This requires a large amount of precious medicinal materials to gradually and over a long period of time to replenish and repair the damage, and many of these materials are extremely rare and hard to come by.
It would be very difficult for him to collect these precious medicinal herbs on his own, but it was different for the Da Ming's royal family.
After all, he is the ruler of the world, and his resources are beyond the imagination of ordinary people. What is difficult for others to obtain medicinal herbs is nothing to him.
This was also a major reason why he brought Zhu Ruoxue here: he wanted to use the wealthy and powerful Old Zhu Household to rebuild the girl's foundation.
Holding the little girl's hand, they arrived at the Da Ming Dynasty's imperial vault once again. Because they had the jade token personally bestowed by Zhu Yuanzhang, they were not stopped and entered the vault directly.
However, before entering, Wang Hao glanced at the six old eunuchs guarding the secret vault. He had seen those six old eunuchs when he came here with Cao Haisheng and the Three Sovereigns last time. He hadn't realized it then, but now that he looked closely, he realized that all six of them were actually Half-step Innate experts.
But thinking about it, it makes sense. After all, the secret vault not only contains Duobao collected by the Da Ming Dynasty royal family over the past two hundred years, but also martial arts manuals. It can be said to be a great asset of the Da Ming Dynasty royal family, so it is only natural that experts should be sent to oversee it.
Without saying much, Wang Hao led Zhu Ruoxue into the secret vault, his eyes burning with desire as he looked at the precious medicinal herbs stored there, almost drooling.
When he came here with the Three Sovereigns last time, he took a liking to the precious medicinal herbs collected in the secret vault, but at that time he was not qualified to touch these precious herbs. But now he is qualified enough.
With Zhu Yuanzhang's personal jade token in hand, even if they emptied the entire secret vault, no one would say a word.
Turning his gaze away from the medicinal herbs, Wang Hao mentally instructed the Xiao Mengmeng in his System Space, " Xiao Mengmeng, quickly activate the Treasure-Seeking Function and search for the treasures here."
When he last visited the secret vault, he wanted Xiao Mengmeng to search it, since it was the secret vault of the Da Ming Dynasty's royal family, and there must be many treasures inside.
There wasn't a chance to take it with me then, so I didn't let Xiao Mengmeng search for it, lest she be envious.
But now it's possible!
"Hmm, five things are barely acceptable!"
After activating the Treasure-Seeking Function and scanning the entire vault, Xiao Mengmeng pointed out five treasures, but Xiao Mengmeng only rated them as barely acceptable.
Wang Hao didn't care about this. After all, Xiao Mengmeng was Ruthless dared to go against big shots like the Heavenly Dao and Dao Ancestor Hongjun. It was already quite good that they could give her something that was barely acceptable.
This was only said to save face for Wang Hao; otherwise, these things wouldn't even be considered trash in his eyes.
Without saying much, Wang Hao first took over the five treasures that Xiao Mengmeng had marked and examined them one by one.
Three of them were medicinal herbs that had been stored for thousands of years and were extremely potent. However, compared to these three precious herbs, he was more concerned about the remaining two items.
It was a fist-sized black stone and a broken spear, or more precisely, the spearhead.
"This is... Mystic Heavy Stone? No, it's only a semi-finished product."
Wang Hao examined the black stone carefully, and it took him a while to figure out what it was all about.
Although he was just a blacksmith's apprentice in the Jiuli Tribe in his Primordial World life, he had seen many basic ores, including one called Mystic Heavy Stone.
The Mystic Heavy Stone has a very special ability: it can enhance Gravity. In fact, it enhances its own gravitational pull, and Gravity is a manifestation of attraction.
By supplying it with energy through special methods, it can enhance its own Gravity, which is quite a good ability and is often used in the forging of basic weapons.
The black stone in front of us is similar to the Mystic Heavy Stone. Although it is quite different from the Mystic Heavy Stone in the Primordial Great World, it is essentially the same.
Unfortunately, this stone only possesses a small amount of the properties of Mystic Heavy Stone, and it is only a semi-finished product, capable of increasing Gravity by a maximum of ten times.
It's not bad, considering it's just a low-level martial arts world; we can't expect too much.
After having the eunuch following behind him put away the Mystic Heavy Stone, Wang Hao turned his gaze to the last item—the broken spear, or more precisely, the fiery red spearhead.
The spearhead faintly emanated a heat. Although Wang Hao couldn't recognize what it was, he had seen something similar in his memories of his past life in the Primordial World world.
In the Primordial Great World, some stubborn iron absorbed a large amount of fire-attribute energy from the underground magma, causing the iron's properties to change. This kind of stubborn iron is very suitable for forging fire-attribute divine weapons.
The spearhead of the spear in front of us is a similar one; if successfully forged, it will surely become an astonishing divine weapon.
Unfortunately, this world does not yet possess such mystical forging techniques, so it can only be simply shaped without being able to unleash its inner power.
"This thing can be used to forge divine weapons with suitable attributes in the future, but we'll need to find someone who Awakening the fire attribute bloodline to perform a blood sacrifice first."
After some deliberation, Wang Hao instructed the eunuch following behind him to also take the broken spear, intending to have it taken to the Treasure Island of Ryukyu after leaving the capital, for future use in forging divine weapons.
Forging a divine weapon with exotic energy is no easy task, especially in a low-level martial arts world like the Smiling, Proud Wanderer where even the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi is scarce. Therefore, he had to resort to some clever tricks.
The Jiuli Tribe has a blood sacrifice method to forge divine weapons, which requires the use of special blood.
However, this is not a difficult task, since he intends to promote the Blood Sacrifice Instruction. There will always be some people Awakening bloodlines and supernatural abilities that are inclined towards the fire attribute.
When the time comes, we can just ask those kinds of people for some blood.
After having the eunuch following behind him put away the five treasures and make a record of them in the secret vault, Wang Hao lost interest in the other treasures in the vault and turned to walk to the other side of the vault.
That place was the secret vault where the Da Ming Dynasty imperial family stored its martial arts manuals!
With the jade token given by Zhu Yuanzhang, Wang Hao easily entered the secret vault where martial arts manuals were stored, and was immediately awestruck by the sight inside.
This place, which stores martial arts classics, is enormous. The first floor alone covers an area of hundreds of feet in diameter and is filled with densely packed, tall bookshelves filled with martial arts classics, as well as the essence of classics from various schools of thought, such as Taoist School, Confucian School, and Buddhist Order.
And this is only the Tibet for first- and second-rate martial arts techniques; there is another floor below specifically for storing Grandmaster- level martial arts techniques and Innate supreme skills.
It's worth noting that when Zhu Yuanzhang established the Great Ming Dynasty, he wiped out many martial arts sects. Over the past two hundred years, the Brocade Guard has also destroyed many martial arts forces, and the martial arts manuals they confiscated are all sealed here.
More importantly, Zhu Yuanzhang also seized the foundation of the Great Yuan Empire. It should be noted that the Great Yuan Empire was once a branch of the steppe empire. While the steppe tribes swept across Eurasia and committed countless atrocities, they also reaped considerable rewards, including a great many martial arts manuals.
This would have benefited the Da Ming Dynasty's imperial family, and now it benefits Wang Hao!
"Gulp!"
Looking at those enormous bookshelves, some three meters high, Wang Hao couldn't help but swallow hard. This time, he was really going to strike it rich.
Just sending the first-level martial arts manuals to Dongfang Bai would earn hundreds of thousands of Fortune Points. If you add the Grandmaster -level martial arts and Innate skills from the next level, you could probably get nearly a million Fortune Points.
This is really going to be a windfall!
"Unfortunately, there wasn't enough time this time, so I'll have to come back another time to make copies!"
With a reluctant glance at the countless enormous bookshelves, Wang Hao walked towards the secret room on the first basement level.
His stay in the capital this time will not be long, at most three days, and then he will have to take a boat south to the martial arts world in Jiangnan to keep his appointment and fight the Black Mountain Old Devil.
After all, he made a promise in public, and he couldn't go back on his word and lower his own standards.
After that, we still need to create alternate versions of Ximen Chuixue and Ye Gucheng to sweep across the regions of the Mount Tai Sword Sect and Mount Song Sword Sect.
After completing these tasks, there are still Shaomu Temple, Wudang Sect, and even the martial arts world of the grasslands to visit, and even Chuanshu and other places to travel to.
Therefore, his time is very tight, and he has no time to waste.
The sheer number of martial arts manuals sealed here by the Da Ming imperial family is staggering; it would be impossible to read through and make copies of them all in less than a few months.
He doesn't have that much free time right now, and he doesn't need that many Fortune Points for the time being either. He can only wait until he has another opportunity later.
However, he couldn't get his hands on those low-level martial arts manuals, but he wouldn't have many Grandmaster- level martial arts and Innate supreme techniques. Three days would be enough for him to make copies.